By "Minneapolis" you must mean greater Minneapolis, as the newspaper carrier incident occured in Brooklyn Park.
Maybe we should elect Amy Klobuchar to the Senate Maybe then we could get a serious DA. But, then again, knowing the leaning of voters around here, probably not.
Yeah and guess where they found that thug? The newspaper rapist. In Chicago of course, with family who were aiding and abetting him. If he's out doing this kind of trash at 15, I'm sorry but we might as well lock him up and throw away the key.
I guess the term "buyer beware" when it comes to buying a used car has taken on a whole new meaning! It used to be buying a used car meant if your not careful, you may wind up with a lemon. Now I guess buying a used car means you may lose thousands of dollars AND your life! I guess the only safe bet now is to buy from a reputable car dealer. You may still get ripped off, but at least you'll still get the car and won't end up with a bullet in the head! Fucking Scumbags!
I saw this in the Red Star today, I know it isn't crime related:
"The cab companies look like junkyards," he said. "They're not promoting the image the city of Minneapolis wants."
So just what image DOES the City of Minneapolis want to promote?
Pants: I was actually referring to a different newspaper carrier incident. A newspaper carrier was shot at while delivering papers in South Minneapolis. I posted on it some time ago.
By the way, Minneapolis criminals are probably disappointed the Republicans are coming to town in '08, because they're more likely to be armed. The Dems, of course, would have been soft targets. Let's see what happens to violent crime that week, assuming there's anyone left in the city by that time.
It's not so much the Republicans as it is the 10,000 cops on duty that week... the real question is whether permit holders will be deprived of their legal right to carry to inside the "zone."
In many big cities in other states there are actual areas considered 'no-go' where delivery companies, newspaper carriers, and even some mailing services will not service anymore. pretty pathetic our society has come to this but since there are people dreaming up ways to rob people.
"Greater" Mpls. yeah from richfield to brooklyn park. seems the news is always mentioning these areas when something bad happens.
""By the way, Minneapolis criminals are probably disappointed the Republicans are coming to town in '08, because they're more likely to be armed. The Dems, of course, would have been soft targets. Let's see what happens to violent crime that week, assuming there's anyone left in the city by that time.""
Get Real!!!!
HAHAHHAHHAH!!! Who's whining? Yeah, we know, it is unlikely that the politicians themselves will be armed. They are protected by security or secret service.
I have noticed a lotta views on this blog. Some take one side, some are in the middle--you, Mr S.W., take the opposite end. So, how safe do you think it really is in the Twin Cities? Do you think this is all just talk, or is there a growing problem out there? Please don't compare to LA or Detroit or Gary. That's not who we are. Please compare to say, 18 months ago... You keep it real, too, OK?
Honestly, based on what I have seen and based on crime statistics, I think that the Twin Cities are overall, pretty safe. I think that the increase in crime that we may be seeing here, is not really greater than the increase that other cities are seeing. It is a cyclical thing, as recently as last year, crime rates nation wide where at the lowest point in probably 30 years, of course they are going to go up. But they are going to go down too. The last thing that Minneapolis needs is a bunch of people "mostly suburnanites" screaming about how dangerous it is here. All that does is freak people out and make them start believing it. And then they stop coming here. I guess in reality my opinion probably is not worth much, because I just moved here about 3 months ago, but I did do a ton of research on cities nationwide before I made the move, Minneapolis scores quite well on a number of attractive factors to me and I have not been dissapointed. By the way, it is hard for me not to compare Minneapolis to Detroit. I just moved here from Detroit after spending the first 32 years of my life there. And your right. It is not and never will be Detroit.
Stop Wining,
you should've lived here before the 1990s. that is when the welfare migration really kicked in. the only main problems before that were just a few areas in mpls. and st. paul.
i think why you might see the comments here as over-exaggerated is that minnesotans are not used to this encroachment of inner-city type crimes into the suburbs and smaller towns like st. cloud.
my grandmother used to live in a part of north mpls. in the 1950s and that was considered a nice place to have a home at that time. quite amazing the passage of years.
Yes to both ... Mr S.W., thanks for your honesty. It is the sudden surge of crime that scares us all, and we are not all suburbanites. I remember feeling very safe in the city at any time--even though I knew there were bad folk and even some crazed killers. But, like Derek indicated, crime was more localized, isolated and rare than now. Today, murder can occur with something as mundane as putting gas in your car or ordering a pizza. Numbers, percentages, graphs, and pie charts may ease our minds, but they won't work for the victims.
No wonder Detroit is a cesspool. It was full of people like S.W. who were more concerned with convincing themselves that crime wasn't a big deal rather than people who try to nip it in the bud and hold their city officals and criminals accountable.
Thanks but no thanks S.W. We have enough head-in-the-sand non-confrontational liberals here already.
I know this is old old old, but I don't get to read as often as I would like.
I wanted to pipe in on the "mostly suburbanites" thing. I am 32 years old and I grew up in North Minneapolis (26th & Emerson) went to church in North Minneapolis (26th & Morgan) and regularly walked to visit my Grandma (35th & Morgan) or go to Farview Park (26th & Lyndale). I went to high school on Franklin & Nicollet. For the past 14 years I have lived in the Wedge and Uptown (from Franklin & Hennepin to 35th & Hennepin and back to Franklin & Bryant) I used to enjoy walking around Minneapolis, and I didn't learn to drive until a few years ago because I was comfortable walking, biking or riding the bus.
This has all changed. I am no longer comfortable walking in my neighborhood, or anywhere else in the city. I still do walk places in Minneapolis, but not for recreation. It has gotten markedly worse in the last two years. I do not know why this is, but cyclical or not, I have had enough. In the 80s we had Chief Tony Bouza telling us that we were a bunch of whiners when we demanded police action to curb the growth of gangs in our city. After all, there are places with worse crime - we should be grateful! Now we have our Mayor telling us that it's only people with "high-risk" lifestlyes that need to worry.
I am changing my high-risk lifestlye by moving out of the Twin Cities metro area. Between the crime, the influx of gansters of many different varieties, the still-inflated housing prices, the taxes and the weak-kneed politicians that run both towns, I can only imagine how things are going to keep trending. I'd rather not find out first-hand.
Rambix, thank you for documenting the current decline. It's good to know I made the right decision to leave.
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